Mass detentions continue in Turkey after the attack in Ankara on 1 October. According to the Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, more people were taken into custody in Urfa, Mardin, Van, Adiyaman, Izmir, Isparta, Malatya and Manisa on Wednesday. They are accused of being members of a terrorist organisation or of supporting, propagandising or financing it.

Four people were detained during house searches in the districts of Lice and Yenişehir in Amed (Diyarbakir). In the neighborhood of Kayacık in Lice, Velat Yalçın and the brothers Mustafa and Yahfur Çelik were taken into custody for supporting the PKK. The number of detentions is expected to increase. In Yenişehir, Fuat Yalçın, a former HDP member of Yenişehir City Council, was detained on the same charge.